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Once upon a time a close friend confided in me about being the victim of a violent attack years prior. The story left me speechless. Later, I thought about how when we are children and are hurt, we can run to mommy or daddy and they ...

Known by his vocation and the color of his hair as "The Red Priest", Vivaldi spent most of his career as music master at a girl's orphanage in Venice, writing for his pupils some five hundred concertos. He also wrote more than forty operas. In 1741 he moved to Vienna hoping to make it big, but ended up dying shortly thereafter in great poverty instead.(more↠)